11-16-2020, 02:28 PM
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When talk of ‘unity’ just means ‘surrender’
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When talk of ‘unity’ just means ‘surrender’
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Political unity is an ugly, authoritarian idea. No free nation has domestic political unity, nor should it aspire to it.
What “unity” really means is capitulation. America is once again being subjected to the inane brand of pseudo-patriotic sloganeering we saw during President Barack Obama’s tenure. Now, as then, the media will pretend that the moral fabric of the nation must be mended after GOP rule. It’s pretty transparent.
When Dems win the presidency, we are treated to solemn calls for national restoration; the opposition must embrace decorum and pass legislation it opposes. When Republicans win elections, grown women put on knitted hats depicting their reproductive organs and stomp around DC protesting, all to media adulation.
Time magazine helped erode trust in our electoral system with conspiratorial covers of the White House morphing into the Kremlin. Now it offers a commemorative cover featuring Joe Biden and Kamala Harris with the words, “A Time to Heal.”
Anyhow, I reject this false choice in the name of patriotic disunity. Not one of those 72 million agents of chaos lied to millions of Americans to strip us of our health-care insurance plans. Not one of those voters has attempted to force nuns to buy contraception — or sued them when they refused. One day, I hope Michelle will stop defending the lies, hate and division that her husband inflicted on this great *nation. Until then, though, we’ll have to agree to disagree.
We do that sort of thing in Washington. The liberal pivot from *#Resistance to “unity” is as swift as it is dishonest. After four years of treating every unexceptional conservative policy victory as one of the Seven Seals of the Apocalypse, Washington Post columnists are *already dusting off their columns about “obstructionism” and *“minority rule.” After years of blanket opposition to Trump, we are being told that Joe Biden has a *national “mandate.”
He does not. God willing, Washington is headed for more “gridlock” — a completely healthy, *organic reflection of the geographical, ideological and theological differences of real people in contemporary America. Congress makes laws, and right now, that institution is narrowly divided and unlikely to be able to come together on any of the big-ticket items Biden promised. This is why federalism exists.
Unity is found in comity with your neighbors, in your churches and schools, in your everyday *interactions with your community. Politics is not a place for unity. It is a place for airing grievances. And we’ve got plenty.
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